A LADY IN A TRANCE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2615, 26 May 1877, Page 3

A LADY IN A TRANCE.

A singular instance of prolonged lethargy or trance has just occurred in Paris. The -other: morning the concierge of a lodging house;situaied in the Avenue da Mainjp, whoiatLfrequently during the last week commented with -amazement upon the non-appearance of a widow lady residing ialohe" on 6ne of ithe upper floors 3 who habitually .. went /out every day, resolved to satisfy her curiosity con—cernirig Ihe reason for her lodger's seclusioM ■ No answer being returnedto her knocks, the door of the apartment was broken open,; and the occupant of the room found to all appearance dead on the bed. A doctor who resided in the house, upon being summoned, however, quickly recognised by certain diagnostics that .lie was An presence of a curious pathological case, but not death,

although so strikingly were the usual symptoms that accompany the grim reaper's presence simulated that inexperienced persons were naturally misled by the counterfeit. The patient lay quite motionless and inanimate, her face livid,, Ihe limbs stiff and cold, the pulse almost; imperceptible. The lethargy had lasted upwards of a week, and the medical man could discover no precursor of a near awakening, the woman was conveyed to the Hospital Necber. But owing, perhaps, to the movement, or the cold exterior air acting a3 a restorative, the slumberer-^roused twelve hours after her admission to the hospital, and is now, although weakened by inanimation, on the road to recovery.